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Golden Delicious apple trees

Pick: Late-season    Flowering group: 4       Uses: Eat fresh | Cookery 
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Golden Delicious apple tree

Golden Delicious is increasingly sought out by apple enthusiasts for growing in home orchards as word spreads that hiding behind the bland reputation of the supermarket examples, this is an apple that truely merits its name.

Home-grown Golden Delicious is a very different proposition from the supermarket apples you may be used to. It is a very sweet apple of course, but the the sweetness is more like that of raw cane sugar than the bland sweetness you might be expecting. The trick is to pick the apples when they are fully ripe, at which point the familiar pale green skin turns to a green-gold hue.

Whilst the flavour will be better, home grown Golden Delicious still apples retain the advantages of commercially grown examples - versatile for eating fresh or using in the kitchen, and can be kept for several months in a cold shed or in the fridge.

Order now for delivery September 2013 onwards

Golden Delicious apple trees for sale

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Pot-grown fruit trees (Delivery start September 2013)

Small (1.8m - 2.5m)2-year bush-trained - 12L pot - M9 rootstock £38.00
Large (3m - 4m)2-year bush-trained - 12L pot - MM106 rootstock £38.00

Bare-root fruit trees (Deliveries start November 2013)

Medium (2.2m - 3m)1-year bush-trained - Bare-root - M26 rootstock £30.00
Large (3m - 4m)1-year - Bare-root - MM106 rootstock £29.00

Trained fruit trees - pot-grown (Delivery start September 2013)

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Large (3m - 4m)Fan 4-arm -12L pot - MM106 rootstock £49.00 Sold out
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Large (3m - 4m)Espalier 2-tier -12L pot - MM106 rootstock £49.00 Sold out
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**All prices include delivery (except certain fan-trained or espalier-trained or mature trees). We offer a discount on orders of multiple bare-root trees for delivery at the same time - this will be shown at the checkout.

2-year pot-grown Fan-trained and Espalier trees: Prices of these trees do NOT include delivery as they require special delivery arrangements. Delivery is not possible to all areas. Click here for details or contact us to find out more. These restrictions do not apply to our 1-year part-trained trees or cordons.

Delivery period: Pot-grown trees can be delivered from September onwards. Bare-root trees can be delivered from mid-November onwards. Within those periods you can specify your preferred month of delivery during the checkout process. It is best to order as soon as you can to ensure items are reserved for you.

*Mature heights: Height shown is the approximate height of the tree when mature (after 5-10 years), not the height when supplied. See photos of trees as supplied. Actual mature heights may vary considerably dependent on your local conditions and training and pruning regime - see our Tree Height Calculator.

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Summary features of Golden Delicious

Growing

Uses

Identification

  • Country of origin: United States
  • Period of origin: 1850 - 1899
  • Fruit colour: Green / Yellow
  • Blossom colour: White
  • Leaf colour: Green
  • Popular variety

Climate



Pollination guide for Golden Delicious

Golden Delicious is in flowering group 4. Golden Delicious is partially self-fertile, but fruiting will be improved if there is a compatible tree of a different variety nearby.



How to grow Golden Delicious apple trees

Golden Delicious is easy to grow, and very productive. In the UK it does best in the south and east as it prefers a drier climate, and a warm autumn helps.

It is usually a good pollinator for other apple varieties, particularly traditional English varieties such as Cox, because it flowers over a long period, producing a lot of pollen, and is is not closely related to them.



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Historical details

West Virginia, USA 1890s. Golden Delicious is almost certainly a seedling of an old American variety called Grimes Golden. The original tree survived until the 1950s, by which time Golden Delicious was firmly established as one of the most widely-planted of all apples.



Botanical name

Malus domestica Golden Delicious



Related variety collections

Supermarket favourite apple varieties, Apple trees for southern Europe


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